The Angry Drunk

Today’s particular hangover has blunted the all-encompassing rage a bit; so even I have to admit that this piece by Cory Doctorow in InformationWeek is dead on.  It probably explains why I have a grand total of 6 MySpace friends; and of those, one is mythical proto-hominid and one is a presidential candidate.  Or it could [...]

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This has to be a joke. Just when I thought that “reality” television had reached its zenith (or is that its nadir) those rascally Dutch go and kick things up the proverbial ‘nother notch. I will not rest until we have either a televised live execution, or full on gladiatorial combat to the death on [...]

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I just ran across this via Violent Acres. While the tone is sarcastic, the theory is actually dead-on. This is what I was getting at in my post a while back.

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Just read the article on the Huffington Post. I suppose I should make some comment on our culture of violence or something; but honestly I can’t stop laughing.

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Well, thank the gods for this one. I know that of all the dystopian futures available; Gattaca was the one that I was worried about the most. Now, can we get cracking on the Global Climate Change ones…please.

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Wow, John Welch sums up my thoughts on the gun control aspect of the VA Tech shootings better than I could.

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The Daily Show once again manages to put issues in focus better than the mainstream media, via Crooks and Liars.

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